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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

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Reminds me of the snail people chapter in Uzumaki (their backs get huge and lumpy cos they're growing a shell). It also combines nicely with the 'evil babies' chapter for a cake seemingly made entirely of nightmare fuel...

You know what it reminds me of? The last chapter of Beverly Cleary's Beezus and Ramona, in which Mrs Quimby is baking Beezus a birthday cake and Ramona -- who has become obsessed with the story of Hansel and Gretel -- shoves one of her dolls into the oven, pretending it's the Wicked Witch.

Except of course in that case the oven was on, and the doll melted, and the cake was wrecked. Whereas in this case --

I can understand storing a cake in a cold oven once it's been frosted, though, if you don't have a container that's big enough - most ovens are every bit as airtight as any Tupperware container. I've been known to store the occasional cake or slice for several days in the oven myself, and they've kept just as well as if they had been placed in a Tupperware container.

Just think Monty Python and a whole new set of ideas comes to mind--remember the giant people-eating blanc mange? ROTFLOL

OR--what's that round reflective thing just over the baby that looks like a giant transparent eye? A baby-eating monster from outer space with a sweet tooth? (Think: "I Was a Monster From Outer Space".)

macabre sense of humor? yes, that's me. I didn't find this cake disturbing. It is hilarious! It is so cheerful and executed with such skill.

and "the hills are alive and they are eating children" and "a pregnant belly" comments made me laugh even harder. I'm at work, hissing through my teeth, wiping my eyes, and semi-cackling mostly under my breath. I'm trying to be quiet! I'm trying... I feel a snort...

and I can just see a maniacal baker in the back with a gigantic chef knife chopping the baby doll into bits... so funny. Thank you all for the blog and comments

OMG, people. Sure, this is kinda weird but nightmares? seriously disturbing? scariest thing you've ever seen? It's a cake with a doll stuck in it, fer crying out loud. I'd hate to see how you'd react to things that are TRULY disturbing and shocking. Get some perspective.

I just had to add that I've discovered your site yesterday and I am totally in love. My four-year-old wandered by just as I got to this cake and offered this, "That baby has a big diaper," which is code in our house for "needs a change." It was so perfect, I had to share.

All I can think of is that some little girl is going to beg for that as her birthday cake thinking she'll get a free doll out of the deal and be disappointed by the fact that they probably just bought the head and extremities and stuck them in. (You can get it at craft stores)

My mum actually loves this cake. She sent me a link to it a while back when I was making a Christening cake and suggested I do one like it! I think it looks like something from a Killer Doll horror movie or tv show. Anyone who still has nightmares from watching Tottie: A Dolls' House, as a kid in the 80s will know what I mean!

WHAT THE...what the heck did they do to it!!!! I will never look at dolls again! And that says something because I am caught up on Doctor Who...[creepy doll episode=NOT good dreams]OK. now I have images, and they are not fun.